Funding and finance

On Friday the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) hosted a talk by William Janeway on the subject of his new book, ‘Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy’. Janeway was join...

Impact Investment Impact investment is a growing field looking to find market solutions to the problems of global poverty. It aims to achieve good financial returns while creating positive social o...

Carlota Perez is one of the world’s most influential thinkers on innovation and its relationship with economic growth and development. She describes ‘great surges of development’ ...

On 24-25 September, researchers, policymakers, social entrepreneurs and other key social innovation actors gathered in Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden to discuss solutions to Europe&...

Most people would say they are in favour of creativity in public services, but many have struggled to implement this in practice. As part of the Royal Society of Art's (RSA) ‘Power to Cre...

By Georg Mildenberger In a 2013 SIR blog article, Rachel Schon discussed the TEPSIE telepresence, where Gunnar Glänzel and I highlighted the mismatch between the needs of innovators and the re...

Although we tend to primarily concentrate on the voluntary sector and the social economy to track social innovation, we have always emphasised that it can and does also occur in the sector of priva...

The ALS #icebucketchallenge is thriving and obviously causing some debate in and beyond social media these days. And it goes like this: In front of a camera, a person pours a bucket of ice water ov...

On 19-20 May 2014, the European Commission’s DG Research and DG Employment organized a potentially ground-breaking conference on “social policy innovation”. A mixed audience of ov...

March saw the first conference of the Accelerator Assembly Network at the BBVA Innovation Center, in Madrid. Accelerator programmes provide training and mentoring for cohorts of businesses, aiming ...

For the first time in Poland, NESsT and J. P. Morgan are organizing jointly "Competition for Social Enterprise - 2014". The aim of the Competition is to support the development of social ...

This post was written together with Jimmy Kevin Pedersen, senior consultant at DTI. At best, a national strategy puts forward a common vision, sets a clear direction and sends a clear message to al...

On Wednesday 11th December, Social Innovation Exchange and Tepsie hosted a Telepresence discussion exploring methods of financing social innovation. We heard a presentation from Gunnar Glänzel...

The Greek society after suffering the effects of the economic crisis, started to make its first steps in constructing the foundation of social economy. More and more actions were initiated in order...

This blogpost was written by Witold Kwasnicki. A new Doctoral Research Scholarship Program, called PhD in "Shipyard” ("PhDo w Stoczni", in Polish) is a joint initiative of The ...

The need for more sustainability and responsible conduct in the finance and banking sector has moved into the focus of attention only in the last few years – not just in the aftermath of the ...

The European Union has recognised social innovations as an important way of tackling social challenges and obstacles. Yet, there are several steps that have to be taken to get a resilient, internat...

On December 10th 2012 the first Roundtable on “Investing in Social Entrepreneurship” took place in Hamburg. The roundtable was organized by iq consult in cooperation with BBO Wirtschaft...

Much has been written about social innovation on the one hand and social investment on the other. Nevertheless, when we want to say something meaningful about generating capital flows for social in...

On December 14, 2012, the Greek Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Welfare organised in Thessaloniki, Greece an awareness raising forum on social entrepreneurship in which a lot of stakeholder...

Crowdfunding has emerged in recent years as an increasingly important source of grants and investment for new ventures. It involves using online platforms to pitch a proposed project to an online a...